Reviews

[rating=7.0 ] Eisley has had a few years to purge their demons and have come out on the other side stronger. 2011’s comparatively angry and jaded The Valley was preceded by their split with Warner Bros. Records and various band members’ personal problems, which provided fodder for that record. You had to wonder if the […]

[rating=9.0] With The National’s last release High Violet, mid-life dread was floating everywhere; it was the perfect “hip white people’s problems” disk.  The band apparently scrapped thousands of hours of music to get the right sonic tone and texture and in that department there are few (if any) indie bands that can rival them (Spoon […]

After a humongous world tour and a month-long over-the-top residency in Las Vegas, how does Guns N’ Roses possibly top what they have just done? It’s quite simple, actually. Something probably no one but the band even thought of: strip it all down by cutting out the props, the dancers, the mega-watt lights and the […]